day no. 16,902: the beginnings and ends that justify the means

"The old tyrants invoked the past; the new tyrants will invoke the future. Evolution has produced the snail and the owl; evolution can produce a workman who wants no more space than a snail, and no more light than an owl. The employer need not mind sending a Kaffir to work underground; he will soon become an underground animal, like a mole. He need not mind sending a diver to hold his breath in the deep seas; he will soon be a deep-sea animal. Men need not trouble to alter conditions, conditions will so soon alter men. The head can be beaten small enough to fit the hat. Do not knock the fetters off the slave; knock the slave until he forgets the fetters.” — G.K. Chesterton, What’s Wrong with the World

Origin stories and eschatologies are inescapable. If you presume to speak of where we all came from, why we're all here, what we all should be doing, and where it all should be headed, you must have some explanation of where you think we came from, where we are, and what we should do to go where you think we should go. The beginnings and ends must justify the means... or at least attempt to.

2 Peter 2:19

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Tyrants do not want to set people free, they want to enslave people who consider their chains to be essential for safety and well-being. Tyrants typically know the end at which the aim. They consider the end before they begin, but fail to remember that in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Anything that cannot go on forever... won't.

Philippians 3:19

Their end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

By the grace of God, tyranny will come to an end.